Harvesting
before the days of the combine harvester
Six men went to mow...before
the cutter/binder came along
Horsedrawn binders
made cutting
the corn much easier
Flails on the binder beat the corn
onto the cutting table
Probably the first
tractor in Wethersfield,
with Sampson
Suckling on binder
Later tractors had
rubber tyres
instead of all metal wheels
Stocks, stooks, stouks
or shocks
- all the same ways of drying the corn
Wives and daughters
turned out to
help at harvest time
The Richardson brothers of School Green
Farm load the stooks
A well kept stackyard at Brook Farm,
awaiting the threshing gang
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